Front Street Cowboy Museum - Ogallala NE
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Don.Morfe
N 41° 07.536 W 101° 42.828
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Front Street Cowboy Museum opened its doors in 1964 to bring the colorful past of Ogallala's history to life. Take a journey back in time when Ogallala filled with thousands of longhorn cattle, cowboys, and saloon girls.
Waymark Code: WM15T7J
Location: Nebraska, United States
Date Posted: 02/21/2022
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519 E. 1st St - Recreation of 1880s Main Street. Open year-round, closed Sun. Western stage show June thru mid-Aug. Museum, gift shop, steakhouse and saloon. Admission.
From the Front Street Cowboy Museum website below:
""The End of the Texas Trail"
Between 1874 and 1884 Ogallala was a booming cow town. Cowboys would push Texas Longhorns up the Texas Trail to Ogallala and ship them east on the Union Pacific Railroad. Ogallala consisted of a small cluster of buildings including the two most notorious saloons; The Crystal Palace and Cowboy's Rest. Poker matches, gunfights, and saloon girls were a familiar site in the town. In ten years Ogallala saw seventeen violent deaths earning a reputation as a town too tough for Texans.
Front Street Cowboy Museum opened its doors in 1964 to bring the colorful past of Ogallala's history to life. Take a journey back in time when Ogallala filled with thousands of longhorn cattle, cowboys, and saloon girls earning its reputation as the Gomorrah of the cow towns."
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